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May 2000

Robert Murphy, "Stand Off," 1999.
 
  • Philip Asaph
  • Kenyotta Bradley
  • Esther Cameron
  • Turner Cassity
  • Stephen Corey
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The Old Medicine Song

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Reflection

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Table of Contents

Poetry
  • James Tate
    • The Painter of the Night
    • Demigoddess
    • Right Conduct
  • Dolores Stewart
    • The Old Medicine Song
  • Mark Turcotte
    • Reflection
  • Ron Price
    • First Story
  • David Wagoner
    • Thinking of What to Say
    • That Child
    • The Sick Child
    • A Girl Playing in a Sandbox
  • K. E. Dixon
    • The Gauntlet
  • Kenyotta Bradley
    • A Boy's Prayer
    • A Dream of the Castle
  • Turner Cassity
    • The Dueling Scar
  • J. Allyn Rosser
    • Street Boy
  • Philip Asaph
    • The Bad-Ass at Forty
    • In the Houses of the Rich
  • Gary Soto
    • No Smoking, Please
    • Minimum Wage
  • Barry Silesky
    • The Street
  • Stephen Corey
    • Poems of This Size
  • Andrew Mulvania
    • Visitation for the Neighbor Boy
    • Far from Home, I Remember the Neighborhood and Joe Wolfe, Gone
  • Lucien Stryk
    • Drifting
  • John Updike
    • Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children
  • Esther Cameron
    • Chopsticks
  • Len Roberts
    • The Silent Singer
    • The List of Most Difficult Words
Comment
  • Henry Taylor
    • Next-to-Last Things
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  • Philip Asaph
  • Kenyotta Bradley
  • Esther Cameron
  • Turner Cassity
  • Stephen Corey
  • K. E. Dixon
  • Andrew Mulvania
  • Ron Price
  • Len Roberts
  • J. Allyn Rosser
  • Barry Silesky
  • Gary Soto
  • Dolores Stewart
  • Lucien Stryk
  • James Tate
  • Henry Taylor
  • Mark Turcotte
  • John Updike
  • David Wagoner
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